Norman Foster Quotes

I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher.

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen.

We need to create planned communities: whole new towns with the infrastructure and amenities they need, communities where people genuinely want to live, and built where demand is high.

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden.

I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.

Young people are choosing cities before the country - they have their own ranking.

I want to stay in London. I am very happy here, and so are my family. I like the city.

When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

I like Chino more than L.A., to be honest.

A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional.

Every few decades, we have an opportunity to make a drastic change to the way we live our lives. We get a chance to design the building blocks of our daily routines, the infrastructure that will support and accompany us for the years to come - from the trains and trams we ride, the offices we work in, to the energy that powers our homes.

Our government has this three-city concept where Tirupati will be a city of lakes and a tourist destination, Amaravati a blue-green city, and Visakhapatnam a beautiful city buzzing with economic activity and jobs.

A Smart City cannot be imagined without proper recycling.

The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.